Deligrad Redoubt Of Ilija Barjaktarevic
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Deligrad, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Jabukovac ) is a village in the municipality of Aleksinac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 211 people.


History

In December 1806, it was the site of a major battle between the Serbs and the Turks, known as the
Battle of Deligrad The Battle of Deligrad was fought between Serbian revolutionaries and an army of the Ottoman Empire, and took place in December 1806 during the First Serbian Uprising. A 55,000-strong Ottoman army commanded by Albanian Pasha of Scutari Ibrahim P ...
. Again, during the 1876-1877 Serbian-Ottoman war, there was a battle in Deligrad on 20 to 21 October 1876. In 1941, elements of the Yugoslav 26th Mounted Division fought their last battle against the invading Germans at Deligrad.Piekałkiewicz, Janusz (1978) ''The Cavalry of World War II'' Orbis, page 254,


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Populated places in Nišava District {{NišavaRS-geo-stub